Computer Vocabulary

Match and select Russian equivalents

А A copy on floppy disk or tape, used in case the hard disk files are damaged.	1 CPU - Central Processing Unit
В You do it with your computer when you switch it on and wait while it prepares itself	2 Bug
С A (small) defect or fault in a program.	3 Font
D This is a PC's heart or 'brains'	4 Floppy disk
E A cheap, removable disk used for storing or transferring information	5 Backup
F A particular sort of lettering (on the screen or on paper). Times New Roman is a font	6 Resolution
G The main disk inside a computer used for storing programs and information.	7 Parallel port
Е A socket at the back of a computer for connecting external equipment	8 Boot, boot up, boot disk
I The number of dots or pixels per inch used to create the screen image	9 Hard disk

Internet Watchdog Could Stop Collegiate Copycats (3)

Academic thieves beware. While the Internet has placed a wealth of research papers at the fingertips of students, a new Web site could help professors catch plagiarizers red-handed.

Some students actually research and write their term-papers the old-fashioned way. Others, however, just copy fake ones off the Internet and turn them in as their work.

To prevent collegiate copycats, two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have devised a program that compares a student's submission with every other term- paper on the Web.

"We essentially search a hundred million Web pages on the Internet, interfacing with the top 20 search engines," said John Barrie, of www.plagiarism.com. "We also compare that with our local data base of term papers."

Teachers who sign up can send their students' papers to the Web site. The originality of the work, or lack thereof, becomes painfully clear within 24 hours.

"We code every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence, either contained on the Internet or within our database," Barrie said.

David Presti, a U.C. Berkeley professor who teaches neurobiology, told his class he would use the program. Undaunted, numerous students plagiarized anyway.

"We ran all 300 papers through the program and found 45 of them, or 15 percent of students, had cut and pasted significant amounts of material from various World Wide Web sites without citations," Presti said.

Students falsely accused can have the opportunity to defend themselves. They can show the instructors "that indeed they haven't got their material from the Internet or some other source," Barrie said.

Competition is tough at prestigious universities like U.C. Berkeley. Some students welcome the Internet research watchdog, considering it a way to level the academic playing field. "I think it's justified academically. Plagiarizing is wrong," one said.